Guitar Comparison: StewMac T-Style Guitar Kit vs Fender, Gibson and Eastwood Guitars

Guitar Comparison: How A Home Made Guitar Kit Stacks Up To Three Major Names

Today we are comparing a StewMac T-Style Guitar Kit built by Bill Roof, to several big name guitars to see how it stacks up. Bill felt the components that came with the basic kit were of low quality, so he decided to order better components. By the end of the project, Bill had replaced every kit component. All components were purchased via StewMac except the pickups, which were purchased at Guitar Center. The list of components used is below.

TJ Royer of The Mulroys will be doing a guitar comparison, demoing the guitar against some from his collection. He will be playing through his 1973 Fender Vibrolux with blackface mod. We mic’d the amp with a Royer 121 and Shure 57 through an API 1608 console.

Check out the video to hear the guitar comparison and TJ’s takeaways on the StewMac T-Style Guitar Kit vs the big names.

That’s a wrap for today. Let us know what you think about the guitar comparison, how you think the guitars stacked up and we will catch you next time!

Studio: Signature Sound Studios

Guitar Builder: Bill Roof

Guitarist: TJ Royer of The Mulroys

Audio Engineer: Nathan Thomas

Videographer: Bryan Lee Stamps

Component List

T-Style Guitar Kit

Color Tone Stains, Tobacco Brown and Vintage Amber

Conductive Shielding Paint, 1/2 pint

Pickup Routing TemplateGotoh Modern Bridge for Tele

Guitar String Ferrules

Pure Tone Multi-Contact 1/4″ Output Jack

Control Plate with Angled Slot

Emerson Pro CTS Post, Split Shaft, 250K-ohm (2)

Orange Drop Caps, .001uF

Orange Drop Caps, .047uF

Golden Age Volume Pot Bleed Circuit (Capacitor/Resistor)

Single Coil Hookup Wires, 12″

Oak Grigsby Super Switch

Slotted unbleached bone nut for Fender 9-1/2′ radius

Gotoh Mini 510 Locking 6 in Line Tuners

Tuner Pin Drill Jig

Fret Rocker

Feeler Gauges

Precision Notched Straightedge

Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Pickups for Telecaster

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Guitar Comparison: StewMac T-Style Guitar Kit vs Fender, Gibson and Eastwood Guitars